Hose-supporter.



A. W. WHIYE.

Hose suPPoRER. APPLICATIGN FILED MAY14. 1918.

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ADELAIDEW. WHITE, 0F SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.`

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Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. ao, 1918;-

pplcaton filed May 14, 1918. Serial No. 234,378.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADELAIDE W. WHITE, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America,

and resident of Syracuse, in the county of' Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hose-Supporters, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description. i

This invention relates to certain improvements in hose supporters involving the use of a pair of wedge-plates for frictionally gripping` a portion of a hose or other garment and holding the same in operative position.

One of the objections to devices of this character as heretofore used is the liability of shearing the fabric and excessively mutilating the same after a short period of use, due to the fact that the entire gripping force and strains were limited to the relatively narrow edges of the metal wedging member impinging the adjacent portions of the fabric against the opposed walls of the other member, and the main object of my present invention is to overcome these objectionable results by reducing the shearing eect to a minimum and causing a secondary wedging action at right angles to the plane of the, main bodies of the wedging members so that the flat surfaces of said main bodies may coperate throughout the maj or portions of their areas to impinge the interposed portion of the fabric between them.

Another object is to attach the back plate to its supporting strap in such manner that the front face of the main body thereof will be mainly covered by a portion of such strap and thereby form a somewhat resilient friction face or bearing against which the adjacent portion of the hose is forced by the wedging member.

A further object is to cause the front plate to wedge between the flanges of the back plate by upward movement and to support said wedging plate from the upper end when the device is adjusted for use.

Other objects and uses relating to specic parts of the device will be brought out in the following description.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved hose supporter operatively connecting a portion of a hose to a superposed por-` tion of another garment.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view (enlarged) taken on line 2 2, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken on line 8 3, Fig. 1.

Figs. 4: and 5 are perspective views of the front plate and back plate, respectively.

` As illustrated, the device comprises a back plate 1 a front plate Q and suitable supporting straps 8 and 4 therefor, the plates 1 and Q being adapted to engage opposite faces of a hose, as A while the straps 3 and 4 are atv tached to an elongated metal eye 5 on the lower end of an elastic member 6 v the upper end of which is attached to a corset or other support B The main body of the plate 1 is substantially fiat and is provided near its ends with opposite pairs of slots 7 arranged in parallel spaced relation to form intervening bars 8 between those of each pair, said slots being of just suliicient width to permit the lower end of the strap 3 to be easily threaded therethrough in a Inanner hereinafter described.

The opposite edges of the plate 1 are provided with outturned flanges 9- overhanging the adjacent portions of the main body to form lengthwise grooves 10 said flanges converging from one end toward the opposite end, in this instance, upwardly and gradually diminishing depth from end to end in the same direction, so that when the plate is slidably engaged therewith, its main body will be gradually crowded or forced toward the main body of the back plate 1 to eEect-ively grip the in terposed portion of the fabric between said main bodies as well as between the edges of the plates. i

In order that this peculiar double gripping effect may be still more eEective, the main body of the plate Q is substantially flat, while its opposite longitudinal edges are provided with outturned iianges 11 flaring from each other laterally and having their free edges converging from one end toward the opposite end, in this instance, upwardly, the depth of said flanges gradually diminishing from one end toward the other in the direction of convergence, whereby when the flanges of the plate Q are slidably engaged with the flanges 9 of the plate 1 for wedging coaction, the main bodies of both plates will be forced with a wedging action against opposite faces of the interposed portion of the hose or other garment.

The strap -3- is ofv approximately the same Width as the main body of the plate -land is threaded thrpough they slots -7- in such manner that the outer orfront face of the main body will be covered thereby, eXcept the relatively small areas of the cross bars -8- around which the adjacent portion ofl the strap are looped to the inner sides thereof, as shown more clearly in Fig. 2, so that the fabric of the hose A- betiveen the plates bears directly against: the adjacent portion ofthe fabric strap 3u rather than againstl themaiu metallic body ofthe plate -l-.

In other Words, the portion of the strap 3w extending across the outer face of the main body of the plate 1* constitutes whatl may be termed a resilient lining or facing for said main body for establishing a more reliable friction grip upon the hose when the Wedge plate is forcedto its operative position.

It will also be noted upon reference to Fig. 2 that the lower end of the strap 3-a is returned along the inner face of.' the main body of the plate -1- to avoid direct contact ofthe metal plate with the flesh ofthe ivearer, the end ofthe tape or strap being stitched to tlie main body thereof `directly above the upper end of the plate -1-,

thereby forming a loop which en'ibraces both ends of said plate.

The strap ./l is threaded through a slot 12- in the upper end of jthe Wedge plate 2- and preferably forms a continuation of the strap -3- passing through the eye -5-, the upper ends of said'straipV being stitched together at 13 just below said eye, as shoW'n'more clearly in Fig. 2.

This strap -4- is somewhat shorter than the strap -3- so that when the device is adjusted for use the strain of supporting the hose Will be borne primarily by the strap -lY--, which in turn operates to tighten the wedging action of the plate -2-- upon the hose in its coaction with the plate -l-, under Which conditions the other strap 3 Will be slackened more or less, as indicated in Fig. 2.

In' order to release the hose from gripping engagement by the members 1- and --Q-, it is simply necessary to press down upon the member' -2, or to pull up on the member -1-, the reverse operations being necessary` in vadjusting the devicefor use.

What I claim is:

1. A hose supporter comprising a back plate having it-s opposite edges provided with out-turned lengthwise flanges converging towardr the top. and overhanging the adjacent portions of the main body to form lengthwise grooves', and a front platehaving its opposite edges provided with upwardly converging outturned ianges gradually diminishing in depth from bottom to top for sliding interlocking engagement in said grooves, a supporting strap attached to the back plate, and a tightening and releasingr strap attached to the front plate.

2.y In a hoser supporterfa pair of clasp members hav-ing opposite 4edge ianges converging and 4diminishing in dept-h toward one and the'same end for Wedging coaction upony aniuterposed rportion of a hose, and supportingstraps for said members.

In a hose supporter, a pair of clasp members having opposite edge ianges gradually diminishing in depth from one end to the opposite end for Wedging' coaction to press their main bodies toward each other as one member is moved endwise in one direction vrelatively to the'other member.

In wit-ness whereof I `have hereunto smet my hand. this (ith dayof May, 1918.

, ADELAIDE W. WHITE.

Witnesses CHASE, ALICE M. CANNON.

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` Washington, D. C." 

